Zipper shirt



Sept. 9, 1952 M. l.. KALAN 2,609,542

I l ZIPPER SHIRT Filed Aug. 25, `194:9

INVENTORA` Morris L. Kaplan ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 9, 1952 Morris L; Kaplan, Hazleton, Pa., assignorto .The Shirtcraft Co.,- KInc.; Hazleton, Pa.', a corporation f New :York J '-rippucationjaugiust 23,loiaseriaino,111,910

s Claims. (c1. a4-12s) This invention relates to shirts, particularly to a shirt construction utilizing a slide or zipper fastener.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a positive means of insuring that the zipper or slide fastener construction will be located on the inner side of the front facing edge of the shirt where it will be concealed by the facing and in a position with respect thereto such as will preclude the possibility of the edges of the opening of the shirt becoming entangled in the slider when the latter is manipulated. Y

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is a sectional View of a portion of the garment in an initial stage of manufacture;

Figure 2 is a similar view showing a slider structure attached to the garment portion shown in Figure l;

Figure 3 is a view showing the parts in a further stage of the manufacture of the garment, namely the formation of a facing edge of the shirt opening;

Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 3 showing a locating strip in position within the facing edge; and

Figure 5 is a view of the completed garment showing the slider structure located centrally on the inner side of the facing member by relative 'movement of the facing member and locating strip.

Referring to Figure 1, the numeral I Il shows one section of a shirt front to which is attached at I I by stitching an element consisting of a layer of fabric I2 having stitched thereto at I3 a layer of suitable thermoplastic material I4. The element I2 is stitched a short distance back from the free edge I0' of the front shirt section I0.

Referring to Figure 2, adjacent the edge I 0 of the section I0 of the garment shown in Figure 1, there is attached a conventional stringer structure indicated at I5 by stitching IB and I'I. Attached to one side of the stringer fabric is a layer of thermoplastic material I5.

The fiat piece shown in Figure 2 is now folded upon itself, as shown in Figure 3, the free edge portion I0' and the section I0 of the fabric being stitched together, as shown at I3. whereupon the section I0 is outfolded upon itself to form the front shirt section and the front edge facing member I9 thereof.

Referring to Figures 3 and 4, it will be noted that the slider structure I5 is positioned at the right-hand end of the assembly, and it is desired to locate the same centrally, as shown in Figure 5, so as to avoid any possibility of the free 2 edges of the opening vof the shirt becoming entangled in the slider structure when the latter is manipulated.

For this purpose, and referring to Figure 4, I insert a stiff metal rod or band indicated at 20, in the opening 2|, and by moving the rod or assembly or both relative to each other, the slider structure is positioned centrally, as shown at 22 in Figure 5.

Having located the slider on the inner side of the edge facing I9, sufficiently remote from the free edge 23 of the facing, to preclude entanglement of the free edges of the shirt opening in the slider structure, the garment is ready for pressing. It will be noted that the stringer fabric I5 is folded upon itself, as shown at 24, the line of stitching I6 forming a fold line for thus locating the position of the sliders 25, as shown in Figures 3, 4 and 5.

The rod 20 may be left in position or removed Y duringthe pressing operation. In pressing the assembly, suicient heat is used to fuse the thermoplastic layers I4 and I5'. The fused thermoplastic impregnates the adjacent fabric layers and in the case of the stringer fabric I5, causes the sam-e to be embossed with a multiplicity of recesses 26, as shown in Figure 5 by reason of the sliders 25 acting as mold members ande'mbossing the stringer fabric. pockets 26 insure that the sliders 25 will always be registered in proper position and whenever the shirt is ironed or pressed, the sliders will be received in the pockets 26 and no embossing of the front surface 26 of the facing member I9 will occur. This is an important advantage in that under all conditions the slider structure will be concealed and the facing I9 will be smooth and plane.

I claim:

1. In the art of shirt manufacture, the steps which comprise securing layers of cloth and thermoplastic material to the cloth layer of a shirt section along aline spaced from the free edge thereof, securing a Stringer layer carrying a slide fastener to said shirt section adjacent the free edge thereof and to said cloth and thermoplastic layers, folding the connected layers and connecting the said free edge to a folded-over layer of the shirt section and folding the shirt section outwardly, inserting a stiff band in the opening between the layers and the layer defined by the connected edges of the shirt sections, and moving the layers and band relative to each other to locate the Stringer layer and slide fastener centrally of the layers.

The recesses or` 2. In the art of shirt manufacture according to claimr 1 wherein the layers are pressed after the stringer and slide fastener have been located centrally of the layers and wherein a layer of thermoplastic material is located on the inner side of the Stringer layer, and wherein said Stringer layer is folded upon itself to dispose the sliders over the' Stringer layer and the Stringer layer embossed by the sliders by subjecting the layers to heat and pressure to provide pockets for registering and receiving said sliders.

3. A facing for the edge ofv a shirt opening comprising a cloth facing layer, a layer of thermoplastic material enclosed-within said facing layer, a cloth layer enclosed within `said layer of thermoplastic material, said layers being connected together, the facing layer being connected to a shirt section at one edge on the inner side ofthe facing, a free edge of said facing layer being stitched to the facing layer and shirt section on the inner side of the facing layer to thereby enclose said thermoplastic and secondmentioned cloth layers, and a Stringer secured to the facing layer on the inner side thereof and disposed centrally of the layers.

y MORRIS L. KAPLAN.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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